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usamericans really need to understand that if you have ever received a paycheck in USD and then used it to purchase items priced in USD then you have benefitted from the privilege of living in the imperial core, no matter what sort of brutal poverty and oppression you are otherwise facing
can you please explain what you mean by this? i'm confused, are other countries' paychecks not in the local currency?
sure. people in other countries do get their paychecks in their local currency, which is in fact the source of this inequality -- for multiple reasons that all boil down to 'usamerican imperial hegemony', the dollar is the primary accepted currency of international trade. for some commodities, like oil, it is for all intents and purposes the only accepted currency of international trade. that means that imported items and items produced for export across the third world are priced primarily in dollar terms, and will see their prices fluctuate with the value of the dollar. this can cause the prices of goods to spiral completely out of control as the dollar that controls the underlying logic of commodities pricing changes in value relative to the local currency most people are receiving wages in. acquiring dollars themselves, of course, can only be done with steep exchange rates at prices many people can't afford.
so while people people across, e.g.,latin america will routinely try to keep as much of their savings as they can manage in dollars because their local currencies are subject to hyperinflation, none of this is a concern for even the poorest usamerican, because the dollar is comparatively stable and everything in their lives is priced and costed in dollars. which obviously does not mean 'all usamericans are rich' or 'usamericans never suffer from inflation or economic instability' or even 'the usamerican financial system doesn't systemically disenfranchise Black and native communities' -- just that imperialism is baked into every aspect of daily life for people who live underneath or within it.
you can see this most obviously in the ability of usamerican 'expats' to retire to the global south (typically central america or SEA) to live comparatively comfortable lifestyles because their savings are in dollars but just because it is most obvious there do not mean that its underlying logics do not apply more broadly
this is also why migrant workers from central america will risk coming to the USA illegally, facing legal consequences and intense racism, to do agricultural work for slave wages -- having their paycheck in USD means that money reaches a long further when they send it back to their families in their home countries.
This simply isn't the case for people in poverty and food insecurity, whose paychecks below a living wage would solely be used for the necessities of life which have high costs matching the high value of the dollar. Like, yeah, maybe the $540 a week a 7/11 worker makes (10 hrs, 6 days a week, $9/hr to assume) is comfortable within Mexico's cost of living, but in the US that's not enough to survive in most cities. Maybe you have a bigger market with a wider variety of goods available, but ur not spending ur $2000 a month on that, ur spending it on survival.
The only part that fully applies is what u say about remittances. People who expat are *not* the same as those who face brutal poverty. More people die of hunger in the US (over 20,000 per year since 2019), or lack of healthcare, than several dozen poorer countries. Consider Cuba, whose peso has hardly any value compared to the dollar, but whose cost of living is low, with a high "social wage" to compensate. Nobody in Cuba benefits from imperialism (quite the opposite), and p much nobody dies of hunger either (a relatively "privileged" life imo).
I'm not saying there isn't a relative "labor aristocracy" for certain sections of the USian working class, but dollarization doesn't really benefit USians who make less than a living wage. It doesn't automatically guarantee high standards of living and actually contributes to the decay in real wage.
right, but usamericans living with poverty and food insecurity can still have the basic assurance that the dollars they are paid in will be useful to buy food when they go to the grocery store. the point is not just 'dollars are worth more than other currencies' but 'dollars are stable, can reliably be used to purchase things, and imported and export-bound goods are both priced in dollars'. usamericans earning poverty wages and being brutalized by capitalism don't have to worry about finding ways to convert those wages into a currency that won't be worthless tomorrow. that doesn't mean they're not being brutalized by domestic capitalism, it just means that they're not suffering the effects of imperialism.
the idea that usamericans are somehow uniquely or primarily victims of hunger is also just not backed up by any data i can find. very unsurprisingly, it is a much bigger problem in africa, south asia, and latin america [x][x]. but like nobody is denying that the benefits of imperialism are not a lot of use to someone when they are dying because they can't afford insulin -- but that fact doesn't mean it's wrong to point out that usameicans as a class do in fact experience the benefits of imperialism. arguing that it does is just as specious as the old MRA 'wow, so you're saying a HOMELESS MAN has MALE PRIVILEGE?' routine.
I didnt say USians are uniquely a victim of hunger. I compared the death rate from malnutrition between the US and Cuba to show that strength of currency doesn't mechanically determine standards of living. Less people die of hunger in Lebanon (which has been having a huge inflation crisis recently) and the entire post-Soviet world (in spite of the "shock therapy" of the 90s). Yes, I can take my dollars almost anywhere else in the world and experience the dollar's buying power. But if I'm too poor to travel or have savings, if I have nothing to sell but my labor, if I'm in debt, these benefits extend less and less toward a "unique privilege." I could care less about the dollar's buying power when so much of my debt is denominated in dollars. I'm instead jealous of the privilege Cubans have in receiving free college education and healthcare.
Yes, hunger is by-and-large a bigger problem in the imperial periphery, and imperial core extraction/unequal exchange/sanctions are direct causes. But imperialism primarily benefits the financier class, and those benefits don't exactly trickle down to literally everybody who has ever been paid a dollar. Even if we don't have children working in cobalt mines, we do have children working in auto plants, dying at work in sawmills and meat processing plants.
The part of ur post that irked me was where u said "no matter how much brutal poverty and oppression you face, you benefit from imperial core privilege." I'm not trying to say "not all USians," I'm trying to say that working class (and in particular colonized) people in the belly of the beast have little benefit in upholding the imperialist world system, and similar incentives to overthrow it as the imperial periphery. I'm saying we also have workers with nothing to lose but their chains, up the de-dollarization. I'm also disputing the idea that you can broadly categorize USians (even "illegal" immigrants paid less than minimum wage, but still in dollars) as a distinct "class," particularly in a way that obscures actual class relations and contradictions (if Gaddafi succeeded in setting up the Dinar, would this mean Libyans would constitute a "privileged class" due to the assured stability of a currency backed by gold?). Immigrants working on berry farms in the south being paid starvation wages aren't exactly relieved that their suffering is denominated in dollars. Being paid in a dollars doesn't create a distinct class. The entire working class in the US's borders isn't one big labor aristocracy solely because we are paid dollars. The "exorbitant privilege" of the US dollar doesn't justify this post in the "check ur privilege" genre. In the age of neoliberalism and "financialization" of the US economy, the strength of the dollar has progressively meant less and less for USian living standards (and honestly, less and less in preventing currency or inflation or banking crises, as 2023 has shown us).
usamericans really need to understand that if you have ever received a paycheck in USD and then used it to purchase items priced in USD then you have benefitted from the privilege of living in the imperial core, no matter what sort of brutal poverty and oppression you are otherwise facing
can you please explain what you mean by this? i'm confused, are other countries' paychecks not in the local currency?
sure. people in other countries do get their paychecks in their local currency, which is in fact the source of this inequality -- for multiple reasons that all boil down to 'usamerican imperial hegemony', the dollar is the primary accepted currency of international trade. for some commodities, like oil, it is for all intents and purposes the only accepted currency of international trade. that means that imported items and items produced for export across the third world are priced primarily in dollar terms, and will see their prices fluctuate with the value of the dollar. this can cause the prices of goods to spiral completely out of control as the dollar that controls the underlying logic of commodities pricing changes in value relative to the local currency most people are receiving wages in. acquiring dollars themselves, of course, can only be done with steep exchange rates at prices many people can't afford.
so while people people across, e.g.,latin america will routinely try to keep as much of their savings as they can manage in dollars because their local currencies are subject to hyperinflation, none of this is a concern for even the poorest usamerican, because the dollar is comparatively stable and everything in their lives is priced and costed in dollars. which obviously does not mean 'all usamericans are rich' or 'usamericans never suffer from inflation or economic instability' or even 'the usamerican financial system doesn't systemically disenfranchise Black and native communities' -- just that imperialism is baked into every aspect of daily life for people who live underneath or within it.
you can see this most obviously in the ability of usamerican 'expats' to retire to the global south (typically central america or SEA) to live comparatively comfortable lifestyles because their savings are in dollars but just because it is most obvious there do not mean that its underlying logics do not apply more broadly
this is also why migrant workers from central america will risk coming to the USA illegally, facing legal consequences and intense racism, to do agricultural work for slave wages -- having their paycheck in USD means that money reaches a long further when they send it back to their families in their home countries.
This simply isn't the case for people in poverty and food insecurity, whose paychecks below a living wage would solely be used for the necessities of life which have high costs matching the high value of the dollar. Like, yeah, maybe the $540 a week a 7/11 worker makes (10 hrs, 6 days a week, $9/hr to assume) is comfortable within Mexico's cost of living, but in the US that's not enough to survive in most cities. Maybe you have a bigger market with a wider variety of goods available, but ur not spending ur $2000 a month on that, ur spending it on survival.
The only part that fully applies is what u say about remittances. People who expat are *not* the same as those who face brutal poverty. More people die of hunger in the US (over 20,000 per year since 2019), or lack of healthcare, than several dozen poorer countries. Consider Cuba, whose peso has hardly any value compared to the dollar, but whose cost of living is low, with a high "social wage" to compensate. Nobody in Cuba benefits from imperialism (quite the opposite), and p much nobody dies of hunger either (a relatively "privileged" life imo).
I'm not saying there isn't a relative "labor aristocracy" for certain sections of the USian working class, but dollarization doesn't really benefit USians who make less than a living wage. It doesn't automatically guarantee high standards of living and actually contributes to the decay in real wage.
Regarding the DnD Orc posts:
What would be a less problematic way of describing a fantasy “race”/“species” that is meant to be “evil” and “vile”, (because maybe they were created by a evil deity to cause havoc etc).
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you're positing an inherently paradoxical project mate. "how do i construct a fictional Type of Person who is ontologically evil, whose murder is prima facie acceptable or even laudable, while unimpacted by the titanic weight of historical discourses that did the exact same rhetorical work in service of real-world violences?" -- the answer is that you've invented an impossible task!
there is no fantasy of uncomplicated and meritorious ethnic violence that is neatly separable from the historical context those fantasies are produced in. that's just the way it is. genuinely, i feel compelled to ask--not because i want to hear the answer, but because i want you and others to think about this--why is this a fantasy you’re so desperate to salvage?